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Thanks! Is it free to call and ask his advice??

Thanks for all the links--I've been reading up on this, I just don't have a lot of time to comment. I'm beginning to feel like this will never end. This morning I went out and the golden comet pullet has one eye area swollen so huge that she can't see out of it. It's bubbly and wet. I know...

It is overwhelming. If this is common we can't be the only people who have a suffering flock. Someone else on here has to have gone through this before...? I'm going to call the state vet and I'll post what he says.

I just did a lot of research within Google books, and I learned some interesting things. (I also earned a headache...) If Avian Leukosis is a retrovirus, do you think it would benefit my birds to regularly give them a supplement that is supposed to slow the spread of retroviruses? Olive Leaf...

What else would I do with my flock? There's no way I could cull them all, they are pets. From the limited research I've done tonight, I've read that this virus is present in most flocks but some birds are bred to be immune...? If I keep my flock and they stay healthy, will they just fight...

Quote: Is it safe to eat the eggs of chickens infected with this disease? The information about the disease is so limited. I was wondering the same thing. Carolina if it is not safe to eat the eggs that will be the last straw for me with Rich Chicken Guy. We will have to kidnap his pet...

pips&peeps : From what I read you have leukosis, which can be hereditary. The marek's vaccine will not help either. To be on the safe side I would not get birds from whomever you got them from again. The cocci was there as a secondary problem. You can also kill cocci oocysts with a little...

What do I do with the ammonia? Dilute it in a spray bottle? I'm shocked that the pullet still had cocci because I had previously treated them with Sulmet for a week then a few weeks later I gave them Corrid for two weeks. I haven't seen any signs of bloody poop or anything. I just gave...

I got the report in the mail today! My husband ripped it up thinking it was junk mail, so I can't scan it, but I'll type it. Please tell me what to do now...I have one bird who has green mucus, but none of the others had that symptom so I think she just has an infection and I am treating her...

I called and they said that they were getting together the final test results, still waiting on a few, and they would have it in the mail in the next couple days. It's probably easier for me to see the results on paper anyway, since the doctor I had to speak with last time was Asian and had a...

It makes me kind of nervous, considering how sick they've all been. I don't want to rock the boat. I think I'll just keep on with the unpetroleum and try out the poultry dust. I just turned on Diego for my toddler so I can call the necropsy place...I bet they still have nothing to tell me, but...

I tried DE first for our lice, and nothing happened. Then I tried Sevin dust, and it killed some but of course there were more eggs that hatched. I read up some on Sevin and now I'm scared to re-coat them with it. I got some poultry dust from TSC to try. The main ingredient is permethrin, I...

Thanks, I'll go to Whole Foods tomorrow and see if they have it! I bet they do. Interesting tidbit...the guy I bought the sick chickens from told someone else who unknowingly also purchased his birds that one of his BLRW breeding hens had cancer but that it wasn't contagious or genetic...

Thanks for the links Minx! I've been looking around at them in my spare time. Hopefully I'll get the diagnosis early this week. Where do you buy fresh wheatgrass juice? Do they sell it at Whole Foods? I've never heard of it! If I can find it I'll buy some and try it. Usually I use...

Still waiting the test results...but just thinking...do you think these symptoms could match Marek's disease? I read that it can cause cancer like symptoms. Squinty eyes (sensitivity to light) was also on the symptom list, and this bird who had a necropsy always squinted her eyes outside...

Wow. Those links were extremely informative, thanks. I hope the cancer was just a fluke and not something going through my flock!! Now we just have to wait a week for the full panel of tests to let us know... I'm really nervous now. On the positive side, I put GSE in the water (along with...

I just called and the preliminary findings, just from the gross examination, are that the bird died from cancer. There was a huge mass in the abdomen, and that lesion on the skin also appeared to be cancerous. He said the respiratory stuff they found was secondary and not the cause of death as...

I wonder what could have injured her like that. We have a cat who occasionally playfully chases the chickens, but ever since our biggest hen challenged her she hasn't bothered them. I don't think either of my dogs have been near them either. Hmm. I'm calling the office first thing in the...

Just to update anyone who is following this... They didn't call me, and it had been 24 hours so I called them. The pathologist who did the necropsy is sick today, so I have to call back again tomorrow. I hope the disgusting black spot on my bird didn't make her sick. I'm never going to find...

Quote: If they are actually responding to the sulmet, It has to be Coryza..Coryza is the only respiratory illness that responds to sulmet.......... The guy I talked to has a PhD in poultry and he is the head of the large research lab at UK...he told me that Sulmet acts as a broad spectrum...